SPDIF output missing after upgrading to F11

asun · #1 3rd September 2009, 08:26 AM

Help me out here guys. I'm completely baffled by this. In F10, I have everything set up as I like it. The PC is a HTPC and the audio output is using the SPDIF out. I use pulseaudio and alsa interchangeably in this setup. Alsa for spdif passthrough and pulse for everything else.

After I upgraded to F11, the SPDIF part is missing completely. Here are the lspci and aplay result:

Code:

# lspci -vvvv -s 00:05.0
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2a66                       
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- 
        Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max)                                                                   
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 22                                                                    
        Region 0: Memory at fe028000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]                                   
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
                Masking: 00000000  Pending: 00000000
        Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable- Fixed+
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

Code:

# aplay -L
front:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC1200 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC1200 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC1200 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC1200 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC1200 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC1200 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
default
    Default

Now, according to /proc/asound/devices, the digital output is there. But how do I get it to show? I tried pavucontrol, even hacking /etc/pulse/default.pa, but nothing works.

Code:

# cat /proc/asound/devices
  2:        : timer
  3: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
  4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
  5: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent
  6: [ 0]   : control
  7: [ 1- 3]: digital audio playback
  8: [ 1- 0]: hardware dependent
  9: [ 1]   : control

asun · #2 3rd September 2009, 06:17 PM

Replying to myself here. So I looked into /etc/asound.state and indeed, there is no IEC958 channel/switch specified. So I grabbed a asound.state with IEC958 and do alsactl restore, still no luck

aplay -l still doesn't list any digital device.

Does anyone else experience this? Another thing I noticed is that it used to be ALC888 and now it's ALC1200.